<p>There’s no denying that Asian males in many ways (image-wise) have it tougher than their female counterparts (tho, being generally stereotyped as some submissive, “lotus blossom” isn’t exactly empowering either).</p>
<p>Think about it.</p>
<p>How many positive (handsome/masculine) images of Asian males are there in the US media (TV, film, advertising, news, etc.)? (Granted, it has improved a bit since a decade or so ago, but still, what do you think the chances of an AM journalist making it to the news anchor chair as opposed to the AF journalist?)</p>
<p>OTOH, AFs are overrepresented in the media and predominantly partnered w/ WMs (heck, AFs are more commonly partnered w/ BMs than AMs in TV/film and the % of AF/BM couplings is quite small - less than 1% of all AF couplings).</p>
<p>It’s the same reason why BFs have it worse (in the context of being “attractive”) than BMs.</p>
<p>While there are a good no. of images of attractive BFs (in TV, film and music), they are also many negative counterimages of BFs as being big, loud and overbearing.</p>
<p>There are plenty of studies which show how media images or stereotypes do impact how people view themselves and others (even if it is just on a subconscious-level).</p>
<p>Now, having said that - yeah, INDIVIDUAL characteristics play the biggest role, but it’s not like the impact of the media and stereotypes is nothing.</p>
<p>@Millancad</p>
<p>That chart is misleading since it overwhelmingly includes warbrides, mailorder brides, etc. from Asia (there are over 1.3 million more AFs than AMs in the US, mostly in the 30+ age range).</p>
<p>A more reflective database would be one limited to US born or raised Asians (where about 39-40% of US born/raised AFs marry WMs and about 27-28% of US born/raised AMs marry WFs).</p>
<p>As for AMs dating WFs - it’s much easier if the AM is totally “Americanized”/“whitewashed” and has mostly white friends, etc.</p>
<p>Otoh, it doesn’t really matter if the AFs is “whitewashed” or “FOBBY” (granted, these terms are a bit offensive, but I’m using them to show how ingrained they are; also, it’s quicker to use than to spell everything out).</p>
<p>Also, for a many “whitewashed” AFs, they would never date a FOBBY AM and if they dated Asian, it would have to be w/ a whitewashed AM.</p>